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Re: Jewish (was: constructed romance) languages

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Friday, January 22, 1999, 5:10
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 22:25:42 -0600 Eric Christopherson <eric@...>
writes:
>Steg Belsky wrote: >> > LISHANA-DENI: Israel >> > LISHANAN: Israel >> > LISHANID NOSHAN: Israel
>> I just think all these "lishan..." language names sound very cool :)
>What do they mean? Something related to loshn (language)?
Yup, I think they all mean something like "our language". Although _lishanid noshan_ looks to me like it could mean "our old language", from the root YShN. I've never seen any kind of _-id_ possessive suffix, though.
>> > SHUADIT: France
>> My "history of Hebrew" book says that Chuadit ( << Yehudit, >"Jewish") has >> some very unusual sound shifts, such as /s/ >> /f/, as in _sus_ >(horse) >> /fuf/, and the /j/ >> /S/ change found in the name of the language >> itself.
>I think I read that even some /t/s became /f/. Freaky :)
But cool :) , and understandable. In some accents/dialects of Hebrew, one of the three /s/ phonemes is an allophone of /t/ , so what affects one /s/ could affect the other /s/s.
>> > YEVANIC: Israel
>> Judeo-Greek? (Yavan = Greece)
>No, it's probably the language spoken by Jews who live on Yavin :) You >didn't know about the Jewish contribution to the Rebellion, did you? >:)
....i don't get it... -Stephen (Steg) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]